State Department Conducts Secret Visit with Death Squad Leader in Syria

As the Syrian army continues to gain the upper hand
against the NATO-backed death squads made up of mercenaries, fanatics,
and al-Qaeda terrorists, it appears that the Western powers responsible
for the creation of the armed and violent rebellion have kicked into
high gear as the advance of their proxy army has been stalled.

Yet the Western agitators have not given up. This much is made clear by
the recent “secret” visit by former U.S. Ambassador to Syria and
notorious destabilization agent Robert Ford made to the current death
squad leader, Gen. Salim Idriss.

This visit took place Wednesday, May 9, 2013 and was
likely initiated via the Bab al-Salama crossing on the Turkey/Syria
border. According to Deborah Thomas of NPR,
“Ford met with the head of the Aleppo military council, Abdul Jabbar
Okaidi, who thanked him for the shipment of nonlethal aid. Seven trucks
transported some 65,000 MREs, or meals ready to eat, the U.S. military's
battlefield rations.”

Although no mention is made of the actual lethal aid
that has been provided to the death squads by the generosity of the
American taxpayer via Gulf State feudal monarchies such as Saudi Arabia,
Thomas points out that the MREs were part of “an additional $10 million
aid package” dedicated to the death squads by the U.S. government.
Secretary of State John Kerry announced in April that the United States
would be donating $123 million
to the Syrian death squads, despite facing a worldwide economic
depression, drastic levels of unemployment at home, and a manufactured
crisis such as the “sequester” and a host of other domestic crises.

Ford’s visit
to Syria is both part of the overarching attempt to further destabilize
the country, organize death squad activity, and create a public
relations campaign aimed at forming an image of Idriss as a figure
around which popular support can be rallied. This, of course, is at
least the third time Western interests have attempted to create a
“freedom fighter” lead image for the Syrian death squads – Moaz al-Khatib and Ghassan Hitto being the more recent failures.

Idriss appears to be nothing more than the latest incarnation of a
would-be puppet dictator set up to impose the Western will upon the
Syrian people and act as a proxy stabilizing force in the event of the
much-desired (on the part of NATO) removal of Assad. Idriss was actually
a military officer in the Assad government himself until defecting in
2012. Now, he is the official commander
of the Free Syrian Army and thus a comrade in arms of al-Qaeda,
al-Nusra, and a ragtag band of fanatics, mental deficients, traitors,
and mercenaries.

Well, I think we have some mixed signals from the Obama regime here. Let
us hasten to say that anybody calling themselves “Free Syrian Army” is,
in fact, a representative of the al-Nusra Front because we’re getting
reports everyday of more and more units of the so-called FSA showing
their true colors or going over to Nusra and proclaiming themselves
full-fledged terrorists, al-Qaeda disciples, death squads in every sense
of the word. Now, we had, in the last twenty four hours, Ambassador
Robert Ford of the State Department, somebody who did a lot to get this
tragic rebellion going in the first place . . . Ambassador Robert Ford
who is a taskmaster of death squad deployments, having learned it from
Negrponte in Baghdad some years ago, he crossed into Syria, not with the
permission of the Syrian government, but to go and meet General Idriss.
And this General, Salim Idriss, is the new golden boy here. He is the
new darling of the CIA and the State Department. And it looks like Ford
is trying to coordinate the next move with Idriss. You can think of
Idriss as the new Ahmed Chalabi – somebody the U.S. is grooming to
become dictator of the country.

Of
course, this is not the first time that Ford has engaged in a
publicity-based visit to the Syrian death squads inside Syria, thus drawing the ire of the Syrian government.
In 2011, after his travel as U.S. Ambassador had been restricted due to
his destabilization efforts already taking place, Ford traveled to Hama
in order to promote and encourage the violent assault waged by the
Western-backed death squads against innocent Syrian civilians as well as
Syrian soldiers.

Ford’s very presence in Syria was never anything more than a destabilization tactic.
Indeed, he has managed to draw quite a bit of international attention
to himself by traveling across the country at will, “meeting with
protestors” and turning terrorists into martyrs in the minds of the
gullible Western public.

Logically, by “meeting with protestors” one can read “instigating
terrorism.” The mainstream media, however, reported Ford’s terror
encouragement tour as a heroic act of solidarity with “the people.”
Ford’s action in Syria, even as the official U.S. Ambassador, served
exactly the same purpose as his presence in Iraq only a few years
previous. With Syria, however, it seems that Ford attempted to take on a
more central role in the affair. Indeed, many Syrians, if not aware of
the more specific sinister acts of Ford, are at least aware that he has
been instrumental in fomenting violent rebellion and negative Western
public opinion against the ruling government. This is why Ford’s convoy
was attacked by “pro-government” Syrians as he rode through town meeting with his terrorist pets.

The reality is that Ford is nothing more than a globalist chaos promoter
who is merely taking over from his mentor John Negroponte, who became
quite refined as a enabler of mass slaughter in Central America and
Iraq. Indeed, Negroponte’s Iraq affair is where Ford himself was able to
hone his skills in the arming and assistance of ruthless death squads
who target innocent people in campaigns of terror and mass murder.

John Negroponte was the U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985.
In this role, he was instrumental in supporting and overseeing the
Nicaraguan Contra killers who, although based in Honduras, engaged in
horrific acts of terrorism inside Nicaragua. Ultimately, this operation
claimed the lives of approximately 50,000 innocent civilians. This is
the origin of the term “Salvador Option” when speaking of the formation
of “death squads” for political purposes, an option that has become a
hallmark of Negroponte and the system which he represents.

Negroponte was also responsible for the formation of the Honduran death
squads who engaged in a mission of terror against opponents of the
US-backed Honduran regime as well as the Sandinistas and civilian
populations in Nicaragua.

As Peter Roff and James Chapin write in their article “Face-off: Bush’s Foreign Policy Warriors,”
The Sun described the activities of a secret CIA-trained Honduran army
unit, Battalion 316, that used "shock and suffocation devices in
interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer
useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves."

On August 27, 1997, CIA Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz released a
211-page classified report entitled “Selected Issues Relating to CIA
Activities in Honduras in the 1980s.” This report was partly
declassified on Oct. 22, 1998, in response to demands by the Honduran
human rights ombudsman.
In 2005, Negroponte was appointed as ambassador to Iraq. In this role,
he again oversaw the formation of death squads who targeted both the
civilian populations and the Iraqi insurgency. The goal here was to
foment division within the insurgency and turn it into a fragmented
front. A divided opposition is obviously much easier to defeat than a
united one. This theory has been proven accurate time and time again.

Indeed, in 2005, a story was leaked to Newsweekwhere
the Pentagon confirmed that it was “considering forming hit squads of
Kurdish and Shia fighters to target leaders of the Iraqi insurgency in a
strategic shift borrowed from the American struggle against left-wing
guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago.”[1]

The
Pentagon did more than “consider” this option. Not very long after this
information was leaked, Iraq began to see the results of its
implementation. As Dahr Jamail of Antiwar.com wrote in 2007,
Under the "Salvador Option," Negroponte had assistance from his
colleague from his days in Central America during the 1980s, Ret. Col
James Steele. Steele, whose title in Baghdad was Counselor for Iraqi
Security Forces supervised the selection and training of members of the
Badr Organization and Mehdi Army, the two largest Shi'ite militias in
Iraq, in order to target the leadership and support networks of a
primarily Sunni resistance.

Planned or not, these death squads promptly spiraled out of control to
become the leading cause of death in Iraq. Intentional or not, the
scores of tortured, mutilated bodies which turn up on the streets of
Baghdad each day are generated by the death squads whose impetus was
John Negroponte. And it is this U.S.-backed sectarian violence which
largely led to the hell-disaster that Iraq is today. Of course, the fact
that the death squad option was implemented so quickly after the
release of the report suggests that the mercenaries were being organized
and applied long before Newsweek was made aware of them.

Nevertheless, serving in Iraq at the same time that the death squads
were beginning to make their bloody mark on the cohesion of the
“insurgency,” was Robert Ford who, at the time, had been appointed
political counselor to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Ford remained in
this post from 2004-2006 where he worked closely with Negroponte. He was
also heavily involved in the organization of the death squads. Ford was
instrumental in helping make “contacts” with these individuals as well
as developing and maintaining relations with them for other purposes
such as continued and future terror campaigns.

In fact, Ford was once described by Negroponte as “one of these very
tireless people . . . who didn’t mind putting on his flak jacket and
helmet and going out of the Green Zone to meet contacts.” In short, Ford
acted as a foot soldier in death squad formation.

Attempting to summarize the death squad plan, Michael Hirsh and John Barry of Newsweek wrote in 2005:

[O]ne Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise,
support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish
Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni insurgents
and their sympathizers, even across the border into Syria,
according to military insiders familiar with the discussions. It remains
unclear, however, whether this would be a policy of assassination or
so-called 'snatch' operations, in which the targets are sent to secret
facilities for interrogation. The current thinking is that while U.S. Special Forces would lead operations in, say, Syria, activities inside Iraq itself would be carried out by Iraqi paramilitaries. [emphasis added]

While Robert Ford is by no means the architect of any of these
conflicts, particularly the Syrian version, it is without a doubt that
he has played a vastly important role in the the destruction of these
sovereign nations. Ford, like Negroponte, may not have been the
architect of deconstruction but he has no doubt, also like Negroponte,
served as a fervent worker bee in the process.

Notes:
[1] “El Salvador-style ‘death squads’ to be deployed by US against Iraq
militants.” Times Online. January 10, 2005. As quoted and sourced by
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca in his article, “ The Pentagon’s ‘Salvador Option’: The Deployment of Death Squads in Iraq and Syria.”

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He
has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author
of three books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident. Turbeville
has published over 200 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects
including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties.
Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every
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